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Cover: Encountering (detail: a rider by willows) by Fei Danxu (1801-1850) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The scholar Tie Zhongyu and the clever Miss Shui meet in a series of dangerous trials and protect each other's honour against a greedy official's son. A scholar-beauty romance that Europeans translated early, it prizes restraint over passion.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
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